Abd al-Ra'uf

ʻAbd al-Raʼūf (ALA-LC romanization of عبد الرؤوف) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd and al-Raʼūf, one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means 'servant of the Lenient One'.

Because the letter r is a sun letter, the letter l of the al- is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written in Arabic with letters corresponding to Abd al-Ra'uf, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd ar-Ra'uf. Alternative transliterations include Abdul Raouf and others, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

People with the name include:

Arts

 * Abdurauf Fitrat (1886–1938), Uzbek, cultural modernist active in Soviet Central Asia
 * Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996), Bengali writer
 * Abdul Rauf Anjum (1930–1992), Pakistani writer, poet, philosopher and translator
 * Abdul-Rauf Khalid, Pakistani filmmaker

Politics and religion

 * Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, or just Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Palestinian leader
 * Abdul Rauf al-Kasm (born 1932), Syrian politician
 * Abdool Raouf Bundhun (born 1937), Vice President of Mauritius
 * Abdelraouf Rawabdeh (born 1939), Jordanian politician
 * Munshi Abdur Rouf (1943–1971), soldier hero in the Bangladesh Liberation War
 * Feisal Abdul Rauf (born 1948), Arab-American imam and author
 * Rana Abdul Rauf (born 1953), Pakistani politician
 * Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh, or just Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (1960–2010), Palestinian, Hamas military commander
 * Abdul Rauff Hibathul Hakeem, or just Rauff Hakeem (born 1960), Sri Lankan politician
 * Abderraouf Jdey (born 1965), Tunisian-Canadian accused of terrorism
 * Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin (born 1965), Libyan held in Guantanamo
 * Abdul Rauf Khan (born 1969), Pakistani politician
 * Abdul Rauf (anti-Taliban cleric), imam at the Herati Mosque in Kabul
 * "Mullah" Abdul Rauf Aliza, also known as Abdul Rauf Khadim, a Taliban commander, allegedly tied to ISIS at time of his death
 * Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, Uzbek legislator and politician from Afghanistan

Sports

 * Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (formerly Chris Wayne Jackson) (born 1969), American basketball player
 * Md Abdur Rouf (born 1974), Bangladeshi kabaddi player
 * Abdur Rauf (cricketer) (born 1978), Pakistani cricketer
 * Abderraouf Zarabi (born 1979), Algerian footballer
 * Ahmed Abdel Raouf (born 1986), Egyptian footballer
 * Abdul Rauf (cricketer) (born 1998), Pakistani cricketer